gravatars vs favatars

[blinking8s+]

i think its cool yo!

yes, I wanted to know what GRAVATARS are....

[derevaun]

I've updated, if not improved, the code in functions.php. First, I added a function that may or may not net more favicons, copied directly from http://www.peej.co.uk/projects/favatars.html

function getFavicon($url) {
 $HTTPRequest = @fopen($url, 'r'); 
 if ($HTTPRequest) {
  stream_set_timeout($HTTPRequest, 0.1);
  $html = fread($HTTPRequest, 4096); 
  $HTTPRequestData = stream_get_meta_data($HTTPRequest); 
  fclose($HTTPRequest); 
  if (!$HTTPRequestData['timed_out']){
   if (preg_match('/<link[^>]+rel="(?:shortcut )?icon"[^>]+?href="([^"]+?)"/si',$html, $matches)) { 
    $linkUrl = html_entity_decode($matches[1]); 
    if (substr($linkUrl, 0, 1) == '/') {
     $urlParts = parse_url($url); 
     $faviconURL = $urlParts['scheme'].'://'.$urlParts['host'].$linkUrl; 
    } elseif (substr($linkUrl, 0, 7) == 'http://') {
     $faviconURL = $linkUrl; 
    } elseif (substr($url, -1, 1) == '/') {
     $faviconURL = $url.$linkUrl; 
    } else { $faviconURL = $url.'/'.$linkUrl; 
    } 
   } else {
    $urlParts = parse_url($url); 
    $faviconURL = $urlParts['scheme'].'://'.$urlParts['host'].'/favicon.ico'; 
   } 
   $HTTPRequest = @fopen($faviconURL, 'r'); 
   if ($HTTPRequest) {
    stream_set_timeout($HTTPRequest, 0.1); 
    $favicon = fread($HTTPRequest, 8192); 
    $HTTPRequestData = stream_get_meta_data($HTTPRequest); 
    fclose($HTTPRequest); 
    if (!$HTTPRequestData['timed_out'] && strlen($favicon) < 8192) {
     return $faviconURL; 
    } 
   } 
  } 
 } 
 return false; 
}

...then changed some script to replace the gravatar with a favatar if there's one

if($comment_url != "") {
  $comment_url = "http://$comment_url"; 
  $comment_url = str_replace("http://http://","http://",$comment_url); 
  $grav_url="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=".md5($comment_email)."&size=16"; 
  $fav_url = getFavicon($comment_url);
  $av_url = $grav_url;
  if ($fav_url) {
    $av_url = $fav_url;
  }
  $comment_name = "<a href='$comment_url' title='$lang_visit_homepage' target='_blank'><img src='$av_url' />$comment_name</a>";
}

It's still flaky: where there is a favicon, I can reload and it alternates between returning the favicon url and returning false. I can't think of a way to test the presence of the gravatar before using it, so I'm stuck with inserting an image even if there's nothing for its src. But it's a start! Any insights?

[wiphey]

I'm not a big fan of favatars, they're too small. A lot of people use gravatars now so the first version you made was simple for me to integrate.

Please,

do these things in AddOns, users will not be able to follow that when they update PixelPost

we have AddOns there, we do not want Hacks and modifications anymore as the support for users will be too difficult in case they update the official version...

because of compatibility, do these things in AddOns

[Joe[y]+]

could have sworn there was a favator addon i used a while back which worked super! till i accidently lost it updating version.

[derevaun]

OK, I've made an addon for gravatars : http://forum.pixelpost.org/showthread.php?p=13411 . If there's interest, I'll try to make one for favatars too.